1Laboratory for Remote Sensing and Geoinformatics, Department of Geological Sciences, The University of Texas at San Antonio, TX 78249 USA2Research Center for GIS and RS, East China Institute of Technology, Fuzhou, Jianxi 344000 China3School of Chemistry, Physics and Earth Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide 5001 Australia

The described LLEE method only corrects prescribed atmospheric bands, thereby exactly preserving spectra other than the prescribed CO2 absorption bands. In addition to atmospheric correction, the LLEE algorithm can be used to study the temporal and spatial variation of the Martian atmospheric profile.